Hailey Baptiste stuns Sloane Stephens 7-6(4) 6-2 in the 1st round in Seoul on Tuesday in what was an all-American contest. Baptiste will play against Daria Kasatkina in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes.
Baptiste added to her prize money $ 3,770 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 13,590 after this win. If she wins the next match, Hailey will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.
Highlights Hailey Baptiste vs. Sloane Stephens Korea Open – Seoul
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:37
At the end of the match, Baptiste scored 73 points vs. Stephens’s 58.
Baptiste
Hailey served exceptionally well to win 82% of the points (32/39) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 47% points (14/30) on her second serve. Hailey was sharp when converting 75% of the break points that she procured (3/4).
Stephens
On the other side, Sloane was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Baptiste and Stephens is 1-0 for Hailey.
Draw and next match H2H: Hailey Baptiste vs. Daria Kasatkina – stats
Baptiste will fight against Kasatkina in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Hailey Baptiste and Daria Kasatkina since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Baptiste was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Sloane Stephens in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Hailey refused to bow to come back to break Sloane in the 6th (3-3) game before winning the set (7-6).
Hailey converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th game (2-3 30-40 and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Stephens converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 7th game (3-3 40-A).
They played 91 points. It’s worth to point out that, Baptiste won this set even if she scored less points 1 than Sloane (45-46). Hailey surrendered 19 points on serve (32-19). Regarding the other side of the net, Sloane conceded 13 points on serve (27-13).
Hailey in this set was too strong for Sloane and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking Sloane in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Hailey was unerring in converting all her break points in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). On the other side, Sloane was unable to convert any of her 3 break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 6th game (2-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 40 points. Hailey was the winner of the set after clinching 14 points more than Sloane (27-13). Baptiste dropped 6 points on serve (18-6). In addition, on the other side, Stephens conceded 9 points on serve (7-9).
Tennis Scores in Seoul
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- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Priscilla HonHon (7-5 6-4)
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Sloane StephensStephens (7-64 6-2)
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Peyton StearnsStearns (7-64 7-65)
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-2 1-6 6-0)
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (7-64 4-6 6-3)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 6-1)
- Carol ZhaoZhao – Dayeon BackBack (6-4 6-1)
- Yue YuanYuan – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (4-6 6-2 6-2)
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jia-Jing LuLu (6-4 6-4)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (7-5 3-6 6-0)
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3)
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- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H details and stats
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- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (4-2) – H2H details and stats
